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Games With Gold: January 2015

Next year will kick off with D4, or Dark Dreams Don't Die, for Xbox One.

A time traveling detective has to solve his wife’s murder before he can prevent it. Use his supernatural ability to “dive” into the world of the living past by touching artifacts called “mementos” to find out the truth behind his wife’s death.

Get it free from January 1st 2015!

Game of the year: The community edition

The Xbox One subreddit have had extended version of game of the year, here are the results.

Best Shooter:

Titanfall

Best RPG:

Dragon Age: Inquisition

Best Action Adventure:

Sunset Overdrive

Best Soundtrack:

Halo: The Master Chief Collection

Best Narrative:

Dragon Age: Inquisition

Best Stealth Game:

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

Best Single-Player Campaign:

Halo: The Master Chief Collection

Best Multiplayer:

Titanfall

Best Driving Game:

Forza Horizon 2

Best Platformer:

Sunset Overdrive

Best Family Game:

Minecraft: Xbox One Edition

Best Kinect Game:

Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved

Best Horror Game:

Alien: Isolation

The "Should Have Been Delayed" Award:

Halo: The Master Chief Collection

Best Graphics:

Forza Horizon 2

Best Free Game With Gold:

Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition

Best System Update:

Custom Themes / Backgrounds

Best App:

EA Access

Most Hated Character:

The Word "Searching.." - Halo: The Master Chief Collection

The "Buyers Remorse" Award:

Destiny

Best Xbox Exclusive:

Halo: The Master Chief Collection

Overall 2014 Game Of The Year:

Sunset Overdrive


There we have it! How the best exclusive can differ from the best game of the year when they're both exclusives are beyond me, but that's how this works. I voted for most of these titles, not the Best Soundtrack, where I voted for Child of Light. And buyers remorse where I voted for Shadow of Mordor, otherwise the list looks pretty much as I think this year have been.

Edit: Sunset Overdrive's Twitter thanked for the award in a tweet

Edit2: Removed a category from the list that where inappropriate 

More water on the VR-rumor mill

Mock up picture by Wareable.com

As I wrote a time ago, it seems that Microsoft is revealing a VR headset for Xbox One next year. More news about this circulated the internet last week as TechRadar wrote that some dev kits are already in the hands of some developers. They are, allegedly, to appear on E3 2015, but I think we will know a lot about them long before that.

VR goggles may be a bit gimmicky or they may be the next real big thing in gaming. Either way we can sure hope for a some great competition between Microsoft and Sony next year, which will certainly be beneficial for us users. 

Xbox One Christmas Sale

Black Friday wasn't enough, so Microsoft is throwing another sale, with special one day offers every day. This is the sale now, games marked with * are for gold members only. 

Magic 2015*	Xbox One Game	50%
Call of Duty Ghosts	Xbox One Game	50%
NBA Live 15	Xbox One Game	35%
Battlefield 4 Premium Edition	Xbox One Game	50%
PES 2015	Xbox One Game	33%
Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes	Xbox One Game	67%
Evil Within*	Xbox One Game	50%
Wolfenstein the New Order	Xbox One Game	50%
Thief*	Xbox One Game	67%
The Crew + ACU Bundle*	Xbox One Game	25%
The Crew + Far Cry 4 Bundle*	Xbox One Game	25%
Assassins Creed Unity	Xbox One Game	17%
How to Survive Storm Warning Ed	Xbox One Game	33%
Lords of the Fallen	Xbox One Game	40%
Killer Instinct Double Ultra Bundle	Xbox One Game	33%
Powerstar Golf Full Game Unlock	Xbox One Game	50%
Kinect Sports Rivals	Xbox One Game	50%

And today's deals are:

Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor	Xbox One Game	33%
Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor Season Pass	Add-On	33%
LEGO The Hobbit	Xbox One Game	50%

A sneak peek at the Xbox App for Windows 10

The first looks at the new OS's app for Xbox gaming is thought to be an extended version of today's Smartglass App, in which you can now launch apps such as Achievements, Activity Feed and the Store. Speculation has already started that this app will replace Smartglass with the release of Windows 10 for phones as well as PCs and Xbox Ones.

A more extended version for the already great app that we have today would sure be awesome, we will see more of this soon, probably at their conference in Redmond 21st January.

Microsoft now accept your Bitcoins!

Today Microsoft announced that they now willingly accept your payment in Bitcoins. This is a huge deal for many, not only the ones who already uses the currency. Now, Microsoft isn't the first big company to accept the currency as a payment, Amazon, eBay and PayPal are some of the companies that already do this, but some over at Reddit argue that this time it's actually more important. Microsoft sell games, and they (sometimes) have a younger audience than the other companies that uses Bitcoin. They argue that this will result in a larger group of people who use the currency, and a currency being used a lot is a healthy one.

So, will Microsoft be the one big catalytic effect that will take Bitcoins even higher? Probably not, but it may result in Sony doing the exact same thing, competition being a major force in change and all. And if these two giant can change the mind of Valve CEO Gabe Newell, then I'm certain that Bitcoin usage will expand vastly, and fast!

Is it time to jump on the train and start using cryptocurrencies? Can you afford not to?